Though most coffee drinkers know a lot about the coffee bean including which beans provide the best taste and how best to roast and grind them, there are nevertheless a few interesting facts about the coffee bean that not everyone knows about. For example, you may not know which the largest coffee bean is and in fact it is a certain variety of Arabica bean species known as the Nicaragua Maragogipe.

Good Conditions To Grow The Beans

Another interesting fact related to the coffee bean is that for the beans to be at their best requires that they get the right amount of sun, shade, rain and they should also be grown in the proper climatic conditions. Furthermore, for those of you that believe that the coffee bean is native to Costa Rica you will have to admit that this is not so because the beans were introduced to that country in the year 1799 by a Spanish traveler known as Navarr.

Strangely enough, the coffee bean is not in fact a bean at all and they also do not belong to the legume family either but are pits that are generally found in the coffee berry. Furthermore, the coffee bean is graded in a number of different ways. For example, beans that come from Columbia are graded as Supremo and Excelso and Extra as well as Pasilla.

On the other hand, the coffee bean from Kenya is graded according to letter combinations such as AA, PB, AB, E, C and TT and also T and these grades refer to the bean’s size and shape and also density of the bean. Size is an important consideration when evaluating a coffee bean because the larger the size is the more oil it will contain and this helps to make the coffee tastier.

Even in these modern times it is still very common to find the coffee berries being picked by hand and a typical coffee worker will be able to pick from hundred to two hundred pounds of coffee berries in a single day. Finally, an acre of coffee will provide you about ten thousand pounds of coffee berries that works out to about two thousand pounds of coffee beans.

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Company (also referred to as The Coffee Bean) is based in Los Angeles, California and is a coffee chain that is owned by as well as operated by the company known as Coffee & Tea LLC. Recently, in the month of September, 2008 The Coffee Bean had celebrated its forty-fifth anniversary.

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Company that is sometimes also referred to as The Coffee Bean is a company based in Los Angeles, California. The International Coffee & Tea, LLC owns and operates the coffee chain called The Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf Company and in fact, the first Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf store opened in Los Angeles in the year 1963 and the company’s founder were Mona Hyman and Herbert Hyman. Now, the company can boast of having been in operation for more than forty-five years and it has outlets beyond Los Angeles with the addition of various outlets in Phoenix, San Francisco and Las Vegas as too Honolulu and in the rest of Southern California. In fact, there are even some Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf franchises in Southeast Asia and in Hawaii as well.

They Have Wi-Fi Access

Most Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf outlets offer Wi-Fi access and of course the company has also gone international and has presence in countries such as Qatar, China, Israel, Singapore and Korea as well as in many other countries. Closer at home you can enjoy great coffee at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf kiosks that are present in many Ralphs’ supermarkets that dot the Southern California landscape.

Another feature about the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf is that almost all of their products are certified as being kosher and some of their stores go a step further and meet standards related to cholov yisroel in many of their dairy products. This is perhaps why the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf has scored over Starbucks – at least in Israel. There are lots of notable campaigns that have been launched by the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf company including its Support From Home campaign.

This Support from Home campaign asks buyers to buy a bag of coffee or a tin of tea which is then to be donated to American troops that are based overseas. Another feature offered by the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf company in regard to this Support from Home campaign is the introduction of their special black label packaged coffee that allows consumers to add a personal message to send to the soldiers based overseas that would be receiving these bags of coffee.

Those coffee drinkers that are very selective about their coffee will generally choose to drink whole bean coffee. The reason for this preference is that such coffees are able to retain their freshness for longer periods of time and if you brew the coffee in the correct way the taste and flavor will be very hard to beat.